BND - Russian strike on Ukrainian buses kills at least 30

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Russian strike on Ukrainian buses kills at least 30

Oct 8, 8 AM ET to Oct 8, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

14outlets carried it
🫏7 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
45 minof TV captions

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 8, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 8, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 8, 3 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 8 AM to Oct 8, 6 PM ET (peak 14), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (HuffPost, NPR)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 blackouts worsen 🐘 bus stop

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “At least 35 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, officials say” → “At least 35 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine”
AP (2 wordings): “Strike on Ukrainian public bus leaves 30 dead as blackouts worsen in Kyiv” → “Strike on Ukrainian public buses leaves 30 dead as blackouts worsen in Kyiv”
BBC (2 wordings): “Russian strike on buses kills 33, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge” → “Russian strike on buses kills at least 30, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “30 Killed in Russian Air Strike on Civilian Bus Stop” → “30 Killed in Russian Air Strike on Bus Stop”

Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating